i did not want another family member to have to experience the grief and the pain that i did. and so i worked with my elected official at the time to pass legislation to strengthen the state s witness protection laws. i was able to pass two bills just as a citizen just working through my own elected official. and so from there, i was tapped to run for office, and i did. and i won. rhonda was elected to represent aurora in the state legislature. she won in a landslide. rhonda fields becomes a leader on two issues. one, for gun control. very, very, very pro-gun control. two, she s very pro-death penalty. during the time rhonda was pushing for death for her son s killers, nathan dunlap continued to work on his appeals. this was not a chance to proof that he was innocent, to set dunlap free.
cases. and they were all charged in the same exact judicial district. why are these three singled out, and they re the only people on death row? race is extremely important, but it s not important as it relates to this concept of death penalty. we happen to have three african-american men who are on death row for the same thing. cold-blooded murder. and in my view, it has nothing to do with race. it has everything to do about murder. over the next few years, rhonda fields would continue to be an important voice in favor of capital punishment. especially because the dunlap case was about to remerge in the headlines. after nearly 20 years of court proceedings, nathan s defense team was running out of options. in 2012, the tenth circuit court rejected his final appeal, and a year later, the supreme court refused to hear his case. district attorney, george brauchler, now in charge of the
concerned parents rush to the scene. among the crowd was nathan dunlap s mother, carol. we started talking with her, and her views at that point was that he didn t do this, but if you think he did, let s get this taken care of. she called him, and she told him, you need to come home and talk with the police right now. they ended up finding him at his girlfriend s house. he was having sex with her, and when he got the call to come back to this house, which was his mother s home, he got in the shower. after scrubbing away any physical evidence, nathan was picked up by police and questioned. left my house around 9:10, 9:20. in the evening? yes, in the evening. nathan told them, i went to chuck e. cheese. i was hungry. i went in. ordered a sandwich. nathan said he learned about the massacre from the news. they thought for sure he s part of this, but what do we have to hold him?
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